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40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?

The Portal

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The Dream Barrier

The key feature is that a lot of what we do here on the portal has no echo. The communities that have formed around the portal have been the most important and gratifying thing as we finish out this year. Look for the website and sign up if you can. But most importantly, recognize that we are living in a dream state. And most of what we've been taught to believe is completely untrue.

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Additionally, we released geometric unity in lecture form and we have not really heard, despite the fact that I believe that the major ideas are set out in that lecture and the additional material that we put up, almost any substantive response. We've talked about the problem that the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation faked a labor shortage during the 1980s under the leadership of Ronald Reagan passing to Eric Block as head of the NSF and passing to Peter House as head of the Policy Research and Analysis Division. We've heard nothing on this front, even though we claim that there was a study done in 1986 that clearly showed that we were going to fake a science and engineering shortage that could have been cured by the market, which is what happens in a market economy. The key feature is that a lot of what we do here on the portal has no echo. And the extent it will have an echo, it will have an echo only when we screw up. And part of what I wanted to talk to you about was the thicket. What is the dream barrier? What is the screen that keeps us from connecting, from reaching our highest and best function in this world to collaborating amongst ourselves? Now, I would say that the communities that have formed around the portal have been the most important and gratifying thing as we finish out this year. We're going to be looking at the record servers. Look for the portal.wickie. Look for the website and sign up if you can. But most importantly, recognize that we are living in a dream state. And most of what we've been taught to believe is completely untrue. We've been trying to do our best to show you another world, whether it's through preference falsification, the idea of stagnation. And we've been taught that everything is accelerating at a dizzying speed.

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